Has council buckled on Breeze decision?

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BREAKING: Sunshine Coast Council may have decided to settle the dispute over the Breeze development on Mooloolaba Esplanade by relieving the developer of the need to comply with any of the elements of the construction found by planning officers to be in breach of the development approval.

It is understood councillors met in closed session on Monday, with the settlement including a small payment by Aria for community infrastructure.

The Sunshine Coast Daily is seeking confirmation from both the council and the developer as to where the matter now stands.

Aria residential development manager Michael Hurley confirmed immediately after the council decided on October 13 to enforce some areas of the construction considered to be in breach, that the company would challenge the outcome.

A motion to ratify after-the-fact changes to the development approval of a Mooloolaba high-rise project was rejected 6-3 by Sunshine Coast Council on October 13.

However a motion put by town planning portfolio councillor Christian Dickson to reject all the changes was also defeated by the closer margin of 5-4.

Mayor Mark Jamieson and Division Eight Cr Jason O'Pray were absent for the vote and the discussion.

The councillors ultimately decided to accept changes to the balcony decision and to allow incursion onto the balconies of the larger units.

However at the public meeting they held ground on alterations to the configuration of smaller units in the 57-unit building on the corner of Meta St and Mooloolaba Esplanade.